Re: Is "static" meaningful in Objective-C methods?

[M Lang / S Railsback]

"Marcus G. Daniels" wrote:
> 
> >>>>> "PJ" == Paul E Johnson <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> PJ> Is there any danger in using "static" local variables in methods
> PJ> in Objective-C?

More:

a. You will note in my previous example that we use static variables as
flags that *all* instances of a class share, as in determining which
fish gets to write to the output file first. As Marcus said, the value
of a static variable persists among all instances.

b. Actually the example I posted previously was from the model swarm,
the only instance of its class, so (I think) a static variable would
behave similarly to an instance variable.

c. Since you sometimes do multi-run experiments, Paul: I believe that
Steve Jackson found that the value of a static variable persists even
between model runs started automatically with our experiment swarm. When
the second model run starts up, the static variable still has its value
from the first run. Check with Steve to confirm
(address@hidden).

Steve
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